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Erquelinnesia
Taxonomy
Erquelinnesia was named by Dollo (1887) [Sepkoski's age data: T Eo-l Sepkoski's reference number: 1066].
It was synonymized subjectively with Euclastes by Lynch and Parham (2003); it was reranked as Euclastes (Erquelinnesia) by Kear and Lee (2006).
It was assigned to Thalassemydidae by Hay (1908), Hay (1930); to Osteopyginae by Moody (1980), Weems (1988); to Chelonia by Sepkoski (2002); to Euclastes by Kear and Lee (2006); to Cheloniidae by Hirayama (1995), Myers et al. (2018); and to Euclastidae by France de Lapparent et al. (2025).
It was synonymized subjectively with Euclastes by Lynch and Parham (2003); it was reranked as Euclastes (Erquelinnesia) by Kear and Lee (2006).
It was assigned to Thalassemydidae by Hay (1908), Hay (1930); to Osteopyginae by Moody (1980), Weems (1988); to Chelonia by Sepkoski (2002); to Euclastes by Kear and Lee (2006); to Cheloniidae by Hirayama (1995), Myers et al. (2018); and to Euclastidae by France de Lapparent et al. (2025).
Species
Entered
by J. Sepkoski on 2003-01-23; modified by P. Wagner on 2021-02-07
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1887 | Erquelinnesia Dollo |
| 1908 | Erquelinnesia Hay p. 160 |
| 1930 | Erquelinnesia Hay p. 77 |
| 1980 | Erquelinnesia Moody p. 161 |
| 1988 | Erquelinnesia Weems p. 141 figs. Table 2 |
| 1995 | Erquelinnesia Hirayama p. 282 |
| 2002 | Erquelinnesia Sepkoski |
| 2006 | Euclastes (Erquelinnesia) Kear and Lee p. 116 |
| 2018 | Erquelinnesia Myers et al. p. 171 |
| 2025 | Erquelinnesia France de Lapparent et al. |
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G. †Erquelinnesia Dollo 1887
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†Erquelinnesia gosseleti Dollo 1886
†Erquelinnesia planimenta Owen 1841
Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
|---|---|---|
| O. P. Hay 1908 | Skull resembling that of Caretta caretta, but more elevated and descending more rapidly in front of the orbits. Palate flat, bounded by low cutting-edges, and extending backward to the hinder half of the roof of the mouth. Choanae in the hinder half of the roof of the mouth, their anterior boundary formed by the palatines, which have met behind the palatal plate of the vomer. Lower jaw not beakt. Shell resembling that of Caretta, but more rounded behind. |